Chosen
#1,911 for girls in 2025, 101 births · #555 for boys in 2025, 540 births
Given to boys 80.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 540 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,248since 2003
Chosen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,911 | 101 | #555 | 540 |
| 2024 | #1,966 | 100 | #619 | 462 |
| 2023 | #2,076 | 93 | #669 | 407 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 | #895 | 262 |
| 2021 | #3,491 | 44 | #1,307 | 143 |
| 2020 | #3,676 | 40 | #1,473 | 116 |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,937 | 76 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,524 | 31 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #8,040 | 9 |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
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| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
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| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
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| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Chosen! It came in at #9,581, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2004–2005, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Chosen is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Hawaii#233 · 1 in 656
- Georgia#254 · 1 in 1,046
- South Carolina#411 · 1 in 1,864
- Mississippi#412 · 1 in 1,647
- North Carolina#424 · 1 in 2,038
Best ever in a state: #162 in Georgia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | #233 | 5 | 1 in 656 |
| Georgia | #254 | 49 | 1 in 1,046 |
| South Carolina | #411 | 11 | 1 in 1,864 |
| Mississippi | #412 | 7 | 1 in 1,647 |
| North Carolina | #424 | 25 | 1 in 2,038 |
| Tennessee | #568 | 12 | 1 in 2,992 |
| Alabama | #618 | 7 | 1 in 3,148 |
| Florida | #638 | 24 | 1 in 3,973 |
| New Jersey | #686 | 9 | 1 in 4,523 |
| Virginia | #771 | 8 | 1 in 4,799 |
| Louisiana | #816 | 5 | 1 in 4,264 |
| Illinois | #957 | 8 | 1 in 6,470 |
| New York | #992 | 12 | 1 in 7,265 |
| Texas | #1,032 | 22 | 1 in 8,123 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,249 | 5 | 1 in 10,707 |
| Ohio | #1,283 | 5 | 1 in 10,621 |
| California | #1,343 | 14 | 1 in 13,509 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chosen
- 64 spots since 2024 (#619 → #555)
- 918 spots since 2020 (#1,473 → #555)
- 7,485 spots since 2015 (#8,040 → #555)
- Biggest jump: 412 spots in 2022 (#1,307 → #895)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2025 at #555 (540 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,163 boys born in 2025 were named Chosen (0.03%)
- 85.9% of all boys named Chosen (1,930) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 29 | #7,187 (2008) | #9,606 |
| 2010s | 289 | #1,823 (2019) | #5,169 |
| 2020s | 1,930 | #555 (2025) | #920 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chosen in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 22,164 of them was named Chosen, which outranked 86.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,425Philippa75
- #2,425Vaani75
- #2,425Xenia75
- #2,445Chosen74
- #2,445Adaly74
- #2,445Akari74
- #2,445Anabelle74
- #2,463Adlee73
- #2,463Alahni73
- #2,463Aniston73
Tied with 17 names at #2,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 6,664 of them was named Chosen, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.